Benjamin H.D. Buchloh is an art historian and critic. He served as the Andrew W. Mellon Research Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Harvard University through 2021 and is a co-founder of the journal October, in which he published some of his most influential essays.
As a profound connoisseur of the work of Gerhard Richter, he co-curated the latter´s retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum/Met Breuer (2020), followed by the monograph “Gerhard Richter: Painting after the Subject of History” in 2023. Other significant publications include Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art (2015); Art Since 1900 (2011, with Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, and Yve-Alain Bois); Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (2000).
Buchloh is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Art Criticism at the 52nd Venice Biennale.

Roger M. Buergel is a curator and writer. He was artistic director of documenta 12 (2007), which, it is recalled, had a lot to offer in terms of textiles and their conceptual mysteries. In addition to exhibitions in Asia (such as ‘Garden of Learning’ in Busan, South Korea [2012], and ‘Suzhou Documents’, Suzhou, China [2016]), Buergel founded the Johann Jacobs Museum Zurich, which he directed until 2021, and which was dedicated to the interplay between global trade and the migration of (not exclusively artistic) forms.
‘Mobile Worlds’, an exhibition on the colonial legacy of “Arts and Crafts”, which he curated together with Sophia Prinz, was named one of the best exhibitions of 2018 by the New York Times.
Buergel is a board member of the European Graduate School (EGS), where he also teaches Critical Theory.